When the popular children’s television show "Reading Rainbow" graced TV sets across America in the 90s, host LeVar Burton took students through a world of literature and storytelling. Today, he’s back at with the Reading Rainbow app. Back in 2014, LeVar announced that he would be returning to the re

Students simply prefer books in print. Both elementary and secondary school librarians have shared with me that e-books are still a hard sell even to our "digital natives." This begs the question: Is a technology solution always the best solution? Is it the wisest use of funding?

Five years ago, the e-book was set fare to crush everything before it. The narrative has now reversed itself. Yet if I felt troubled by the earlier view, the new talk worries me even more. Reidy’s rejoinder is key: we do not know enough to be so definitive in our analysis, and what we do know does not tell one story.

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Interesting read! Final quote especially - "But digital is now as big a part of this industry as print—and for some authors and publishers it is the only business they are in. If two distinct markets are now developing, we would do well to acknowledge that both are important, and important to each other. This we know."

Are people reading the e-books they purchase from companies such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble or Kobo? There is growing research data that is supporting the

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I wonder if this spills over to enhanced digital book apps for kids? Probably not reading them over and over like picture books in print, but not reading purchased digital #kidlit book at all seems unlikely.

But let’s focus on a new and better story. Disruption clears a path for pioneers, visionaries who see an opportunity where others see a threat. When it comes to ebooks, a few publishers are worthy of note. They not only experiment with technology in ways that significantly enhance the product, but they also reach out … Continue reading Digital publishing: In praise of pioneers →

First Book, a new nonprofit, White House-led initiative, has joined forces with publishers, other nonprofits, and the New York Public Library to create an app called Open eBooks that will bring free literature to students across the country. The app is currently being developed by a team of tech leaders working with the New York Public Library, the Digital Public Library of America, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and will provide readers aged 4 to 18 years old, from low-income homes, with thousands of free e-books.

The Cat in the Hat - Read & Learn is a new app from the talented team at Oceanhouse Media. Launched in 2009, this developer has produced hundreds of high-quality apps for young readers, including all of the titles from Dr. Seuss. Their new version of The Cat in The Hat will not disappoint, but what is different in this title? How has "Read & Learn" improved or changed the digital reading experience?

"A significant milestone in the marriage of text, photos and deep interactivity." Mac Slocum's interview from August 2010 with Theodore Gray is well worth revisiting. Months later, in February 2011 at O'Reilly Media's Tools of Change, we all saw the revolving, gleaming images of The Elements, luminous on the big screens in Gray's presentation. Objective-C programming and Wolfram's Mathematica were behind it, but, as Gray told Slocum, warming the hearts of Books in Browsers fans, "both the print and ebook versions started out as a website." With Touchpress now five years old and the maker of many apps, its founder Gray reminds us: "The common thread is that these technologies must be approached with the eye of an artist and a dreamer." -- Porter Anderson

It all started with a book. In 2006, I set out to write an interactive history of Paris for teens and tweens, motivated by the simple truth that many young people find history boring. Yet history is just a collection of great stories. If told well, they can capture even the youngest imaginations.

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